Windows 11, Windows 10, and even older versions come pre-installed with a security and encryption feature called BitLocker.

Encryption can protect your data from crooks, but if you don't have a recovery key stored securely, it can also keep you out ...

I'm not sure if anyone saw the news, but apparently Crucial's and Samsung's self-encrypting drives have very weak keys or key verification and is easily bypassed to get access to the encrypted data.